Store fixture



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Patented Dec. 1, 1931 PATENT OFFICE SAMUEL B. VARNER, OF GRANBY, MISSOURI STORE FIXTURE Application filed May 7, 1931. Serial No. 535,750.

This invention relates to a store fixture adapted for indoor or outdoor use and to contain the material completely enclosed in a sanitary manner and so as to display the same more advantageously than heretofore.

A particular object is to provide a construction having an inverted container or V dome which is transparent or translucent and 7 "adapted to contain a quantity of the material to be dispensed, together with novel means whereby the same may be removed for refilling, and may be partly emptied, for in stance into a drawer or the like, for packaging.

The more specific objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a vieW showing the invention in front elevation, I

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 1-4: of Figure 1,

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional View taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 1,

Figure 6 is a plan view of the device, the bowl being shown in horizontal section, and

Figure 7 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view taken on the line 7-7 of Figure 1-.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the device may be built into the form of a suitable cabinet as at 10, usually of a portable character, and adapted for use either indoors, as in a store, or outdoors, as at a gasoline filling station or the like.

Either at top or bottom or both, the cabinet 10 is fitted with drawers 11 and 12, which may be projected or pulled beyond opposite sides thereof, on one side by the storekeeper, and on the other side by the customer, the drawers being of any desired form and adapted to contain packaged material to be sold, the drawers, if desired, having partitions 13 therein to provide spaces so that loose or bulk material 50 may be separated from the packaged material.

Handles 1 1 may be provided to facilitate movementof the drawers.

In order to provide an audible signal each time the upper drawer is moved in either direction, a bell is used at 15 having a clapper 5 at 16, pivotally mounted at 17, and held retracted by a spring 18. On the drawer 11, a projection 19 is provided adapted to strike the clapper 16 as the drawer is moved, to thereby cause the latter to engage the bell 15.

The goods in bulk are displayed within a bowl or dome 20 which is of any desired size and. usually of glass, preferably transparent so that the material will be displayed therethrough.

The top of the cabinet has a stationary section 21 and a slidable and removable section 22 of U-shape having tongue and groove connection at 23 with the wall of a similarly shaped recess in the section 21.

The dome or bowl 20 has a laterally extending base flange 24 which is overlapped by a securing ring 25 secured to the section 22. As a result, the section 22 may be removed when desired, and inverted, so that the bowl or dome may be refilled with the material to be displayed.

The space of the U-shaped member 22, is normally closed by a closure slide 26, having tongue and groove connection at 27 with such section 22. The closure or slide 26, thus normally closes the space of the bowl or dome 20. The sections 22 and 26, normally cannot be removed, since a latch is provided at 28, carried by the closure 26, and having an angular end 29 adapted to engage an opening 30 in a stationary part 31 of the cabinet.

The space of the cabinet between the drawers 11 and 12, may be utilized in any desired way for instance for wrapped packages or the like and the panels 32 which close the same, may be of metal, wood, glass or the like and either transparent or ornamented as preferred.

In the use of the device, the material within the dome 20 will be effectively displayed and packages thereof for sale will be contained in the drawer 11 or drawers 11 and 12 and a customer may readily open such Storekeeper in which event, the drawer space V is brought into registry with the dome 20, the latch 28 turned, andtliefclosure 26 thereupon moved outwardly so as to permit the escape of the desired amount of material into the drawer, after which the closure 26 may be pushed inwardly and again latched.

When :it. is desiredto refill thedome20, ele- I "ment 28 is unlatched and the top vsections 22 and 26 removed and inverted,whereupon V the section 26 is moved outwardly to permit of the invention.

filling of thedome 20 and after which fillsection 26 is moved to closure position. Itwid be realized that the device may be built with 'azsingledome or that arb'attery of the devices, consisting of any desired.

7 l lgurev 1. Various changes may be resorted to prov dedthey fall'withm the spirit and-scope number may beemployed as suggested in I claim as my invention Y '1. A display device having a wall provided with a recess, a removable section slicably mounted in said recess, an inverted bowl on said section,-and a closure forlsaid bowl movablyv mounted on'said section.

'2. A display device'fhaving a wall .provided. with a recess, a removable section slidably mounted in said recess, said section having a recess therein, an inverted bowl'on said section and aligned with the recess therein, and a closure for said bowl movably mount- I ed in the recess in said section.

8,.A display device of the class described having a U-shaped section, supporting means for the section, an inverted bowl car ried by the section, a slidable elementv in the space oi said section'serving as a closure for the bowl. V

4;; A display device of the class described having a U-shaped section, supporting means for the section, a'n inverted bowl carried by the section, a slidable element in the space or" said section serving as a closure for the bowl, a'ndsaid supporting means,section and slidable'element having tongue and groove connection.

5. A display device ofthe class described having" a U shaped section, supporting means for the'seetion, an. inverted bowl carried by the section, a slidable element in the space of said section serving as a closure for the bowl, said supporting means, section and slidable element having tongue and groove connection, and means whereby the slidable element may be secured against opening movement.

6. A devlce of the class described comprising a cabinet having a'drawer, a wall --ing a closure for the bowl, and latch means to secure the slidable Wall and thereby the U-shaped wall, against movement relatively tothe cabinet. 7 t a In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

SAMUEL B. VARNER. 

